korabas

> Good luck for average Joe Farmer troubleshooting why the hydraulic valve doesn't work?

And what if Joe Farmer wanted to take his faulty tractor to Bill Repair Man who knows about this but charges a lot less than Deere?

These are at least logical arguments.

I am also not sure I agree with them, or rather with the way things turn out in practice. But, as they say, "a villain is a hero in the other side".

Right, I cannot really argue with that. I wasn't mentioning Apple as an example of a good role model here, just to be clear.

Right, that makes sense, at least from the point of view of the manufacturer, in that you're also "buying" support, etc.

It's still a bit sad that there's no opt-in into such deal, ad that farmers don't seem to have another alternative.

Honest question: what would be the rationale to prevent farmers from repairing their machinery themselves instead of through the manufacturer (in this case, Deere)?

To my mind, from the point of view of the "user" (i.e. the farmer), that can be seen as somewhat monopolistic.

I tried to find similarities between this situation and that of Apple not letting users tamper with their hardware, but it could be argued that the latter makes a bit more sense given that most of their customers, statistically speaking, are not necessarily tech enthusiasts who know their way around hardware, but in the case of a farmer, I'd imagine most would be perfectly capable of messing around with the internals of a tractor, albeit some software-heavy parts would of course prove almost impossible to "repair".

EDIT: Grammar